Justice Sonia Sotomayor reported a $4,333 gift of concert tickets from a record company on her latest Supreme Court financial disclosure.
The company is Rimas Entertainment, the label behind global music star Bad Bunny.
The gift showed up in the Gifts section of Sotomayor’s 2025 Annual AO Form 10, the standard disclosure justices file each year.
According to the form, Rimas provided the tickets while Sotomayor was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025.
The disclosure itself does not name the performer. It simply describes Rimas as a record company that supplied concert tickets for Sotomayor and her guests.
In this year's SCOTUS financial disclosures, Justice Sonia Sotomayor reported gifts including tickets to the opening night of musical "Just Ask" in KC … but also $4,300 concert tickets provided by Rimas Entertainment, the Puerto Rican record label which represents Bad Bunny 🧐 pic.twitter.com/xBAbPgXlC1
— Benjamin S. Weiss (@BenjaminSWeiss) June 29, 2026
The Administrative Office copy of the form lays out the specifics in Part V, and identifies the filing as Sotomayor’s Annual 2025 Financial Disclosure Report, AO Form 10.
Rimas Entertainment is listed with the description “Concert Tickets” and a value of $4,333.00. There is no range or vague estimate on that line; the value is stated directly.
The same Gifts section lists one other item, a $598 visit from The Coterie Theater in Kansas City to attend opening night of a production called Just Ask.
The form’s additional explanation states that no other 2025 gifts crossed the reporting threshold, which makes the Rimas entry one of the only reportable gifts on the filing.
That matters because the ticket gift is not buried in a vague travel reimbursement category. It is listed plainly under Gifts, with a named source, a short description, and a dollar value.
The same report identifies Sotomayor as a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, lists it as an Annual 2025 filing, and includes her certification that the reported gifts comply with federal disclosure law and Judicial Conference regulations.
Sotomayor electronically signed the report on May 14, 2026, and again on June 11, 2026.
The U.S. Courts system requires these filings under the Ethics in Government Act, according to its public disclosure page, last updated in March 2026.
Reports go to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which posts them in a free, searchable online database for public review once they are prepared for release by the judiciary.
The same U.S. Courts page says the database includes downloadable electronic copies of reports filed in 2022 and later, including amended reports that are currently available.
It also explains that older reports and certain employee reports can be requested through the same system, while newer judge reports are continually added as they clear the release process for accountability.
That is important here because the Sotomayor item is not a rumor, leak, or campaign-style accusation. It is part of the judiciary’s own public disclosure process, released through the system created for exactly this kind of scrutiny and accountability.
That transparency is exactly why this gift is now public and easy to verify.
Surely not the biggest SCOTUS news today, but the justices' annual financial disclosures are out.
Top tidbit I've found: Sonia Sotomayor was gifted $4,333 worth of concert tickets. The concert isn't disclosed, but the gifter is the record label of fellow Puerto Rican Bad Bunny.
— James Romoser (@jamesromoser) June 29, 2026
The Associated Press noted the forms were released Monday for eight of the nine sitting justices, putting the Sotomayor gift into the larger annual disclosure picture across the Court.
Justice Samuel Alito requested a 90-day extension and was not among those released.
The AP also pointed out that while the disclosure did not identify the performer, Bad Bunny was known to have played a series of shows in Puerto Rico that month, and Rimas is his label.
That caveat is worth keeping straight. The paperwork confirms Rimas Entertainment, concert tickets, the $4,333 value, and Puerto Rico in August 2025; the Bad Bunny connection comes through the label and AP’s context about his island shows that month.
AP framed the Sotomayor ticket gift as one piece of a broader annual disclosure dump covering book deals, travel, teaching gigs, and other gifts across the Court, including a painting disclosed by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Sotomayor received tickets from the record company that represents Bad Bunny, while Jackson received a painting. Those gifts, along with other details about the justices’ book deals, travel, and teaching gigs, were made public in financial disclosures.https://t.co/jbQth6uLtp
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 29, 2026
The form shows more than concert perks. It also lists Penguin Random House royalty income for Sotomayor in amounts of $30,107, $30,000, $8,924, and $19,069.
Book royalties and outside income have drawn steady attention as critics push for tighter ethics standards on the high court.
Against that backdrop, a four-figure concert gift from a record label tied to one of the biggest performers in the world is the kind of line item that does not slip by quietly.
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